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[–]cmilliorn 22 ポイント23 ポイント

What is dox

[–]1RedOne 6 ポイント7 ポイント

Doxing is identifying someone's real world identity via the trail of breadcrumbs they accidentally leave behind in their online interactions.

They wanted to dox the guy to get him cited for reckless endangerment.

[–]ImBoredToo 13 ポイント14 ポイント

Going through your entire internet profile to find extremely personal information that can ruin your life and publicly posting it.

[–]goblinseverywhere 55 ポイント56 ポイント

I've always seen it more as attempting to personally identify a person through information posted online.

Start locating them then looking up their reddit name online to find other accounts, emails, addresses phone numbers etc etc.

Then posting all that information online or just using it maliciously or even at all.

[–]ImBoredToo 15 ポイント16 ポイント

Yeah that's actually a better definition.

[–]cmilliorn 3 ポイント4 ポイント

Oh, never heard of that before. Thanks for taking time to clarify. Ya I imagine if you nearly killed someone you don't want that out there.

[–]Fartles-and-James -1 ポイント0 ポイント

Yeah, that's not what it is at all. It just means finding someone's real identity.